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The ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. appears to be falling apart in the first 24 hours, before in-person negotiations on a permanent truce have even begun. The speaker of Iran’s Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said the U.S. “clearly violated” three of the deal’s tenets.
Driving the acrimony are the terms that both sides say they’re using as a starting place.